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Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights
Tea is a major cash crop in Malawi and the industry is one of the country’s biggest employers. For small-scale farmers, it is an important source of cash income. But deep gender inequalities prevail at smallholder level, and women tea farmers are being left behind.
As part of the Empowering Rural Producers...
Malawi
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Artículo de revista especializada
Farming for Change: Developing a Participatory Curriculum on Agroecology, Nutrition, Climate Change and Social Equity in Malawi and Tanzania
How to engage farmers that have limited formal education is at the foundation of environmentally sound and equitable agricultural development.
This study describes the process of development of an innovative curriculum, which integrates agroecology, nutrition, climate change, gender, and other dimensions of social equity across 2 weeks of training explicitly for...
Malawi - United Republic of Tanzania
2022
Informe
Supporting small-scale farmer agency in commercial agriculture
Small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries face vastly different realities, which translate into diverse challenges and opportunities. Some businesses, governments and development agencies have been promoting smallholder inclusion in global value chains and smallholder commercialisation as an essential part of addressing challenges and creating opportunities. This is happening against a backdrop of growing corporate concentration in agri-food...
Malawi - Nepal
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Vídeo
RUCID, OACK, SCOPE Malawi
Healthy Soil Healthy Food Initiative: Three African agricultural development organisations from Uganda, Kenya and Malawi present their experience of testing new farming principles learned from the Community Managed Natural Farming initiative in India.
Malawi
2022 - AFSA Africa
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Malawi
This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...
Malawi
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North
Artículo de blog
FAO working to increase women participation in Malawi’s fisheries value chain
Women are involved in many activities along the value chain of fish trade in Africa including post-harvest handling, processing, branding and marketing. However, limited access to and control of key assets such as capital, skills and technologies limit their engagement in formal fish-related businesses. Women work under critical conditions using...
Malawi
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Agriculture outperforms imagination
A Farmer Field School in Malawi helps Jeffrey Chimenya attain more than he dreamed he could as a farmer
Jeffrey Chimenya could not imagine that agriculture could one day allow him to own a decent home and have a thriving milk supplying business. Farming meant subsistence for Jeffrey; it didn’t mean success. Yet today, four years after joining the Nyadanawo Farmer Field School (FFS), Jeffrey says that his dreams...
Malawi
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Supporting small-scale farmer agency in commercial agriculture
Collective learning on the role of socio-legal empowerment from an international action-research project
Small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries face vastly different realities, which translate into diverse challenges and opportunities. Some businesses, governments and development agencies have been promoting smallholder inclusion in global value chains and smallholder commercialisation as an essential part of addressing challenges and creating opportunities. This is happening against...
Malawi - Nepal
2022 - e International Institute for Environment and Development
Artículo de revista especializada
Improving efficiency of knowledge and technology diffusion using community seed banks and farmer-to-farmer extension: experiences from Malawi
Agri-innovations are mostly delivered to farmers through private and public sector-led institutions around the world, with various degrees of success in Malawi. These distribution systems, on the other hand, do not meet everyone's production and productivity needs, particularly those of smallholder farmers. Alternative gap-filling systems are therefore required. Over the...
Malawi
2022 - Agriculture & Food Security
Documento/nota de orientación
Challenges and opportunities for small-scale tea producers in Malawi
Tea production accounts for 9% of Malawi’s foreign exchange earnings and is a major employer, but smallholder farmers are struggling. While those in neighbouring Kenya are adding value to their tea crop for their own benefit, Malawi’s smallholder farmers — the majority of whom are women — gain far less...
Malawi
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Artículo de blog
A return to agroecology traditions points the way forward for Malawi’s farmers
MONGABAY's Charles Mpaka authored an excellent piece on Malawi's 3.3 million smallholder farming families, which comprise the country's economic backbone, yet many are underprivileged and facing food scarcity. Agroecology has proven to be a lifeline for some farmers, enabling them to increase yields and revenue while lowering the usage of...
Malawi
2022
Documento técnico
KULIMA: Revitalising agricultural clusters and ulimi wa m'ndandanda through farmer field schools in Malawi
Learn more about the project 'Revitalising agricultural clusters and ulimi wa m’ndandanda through farmer field schools in Malawi'. This project is part of the wider European Union (EU)-funded KULIMA programme, a five year programme that is being implemented between May 2017 and June 2022 with the aim of achieving improved...
Malawi
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi
Malawi’s many smallholders rely heavily on rainfed, low-input subsistence farming to meet their food needs. Yet for most rural Malawian households, subsistence agriculture cannot consistently produce enough food to ward off hunger. Nor can they rely on the country’s weak markets to buy additional food they may require or to...
Malawi
2021 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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What can smallholder farmers grow in a warmer world? Climate change and future crop suitability in East and Southern Africa
According to a new study, rising temperatures and decreased rainfall in eight Southern and East African countries are likely to reduce the production of vital food crops in the region by 2050. The International Fund for Agricultural Development has issued the scientists' report, which covers Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda,...
Angola - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Rwanda - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2021 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Manual
African Coronavirus stories
Perspectives on COVID-19 Challenges to Livelihoods and Food Systems
The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most widely discussed subjects since the first cases of COVID-19 in Africa broke in February 2020. Most of the narratives were alarming. The headlines put Africa at the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis caused by...
Benin - Botswana - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - South Sudan - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2021 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)
Artículo de revista especializada
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi
Adaptation to climate stress is an unprecedented challenge facing cropping systems. Most adaptation assessments focus on how adaptation options affect yields of a single crop under different weather or climate conditions. Yet, cropping systems often comprise more than one crop, and holistic assessments should consider all crops grown in a...
Malawi
2021
Artículo de blog
End of the road? The future of smallholder farmers in Malawi
Two new studies published by the Agriculture Policy Research in Africa (APRA) collaboration present a bleak picture of Malawi's smallholder farmers' future. This article builds on the results of APRA Working Papers to better understand the realities of smallholder farming in Malawi and what the future holds for those who...
Malawi
2021 - APRA
Prácticas
Comment faire une ruche à barres supérieurs mobiles (modèle du Kenya)
Cette technologie décrit méthodiquement comment faire une ruche à barre supérieures (modèle du Kenya). Une ruche à barres supérieures, (ou une ruche à barres mobiles) est une caisse rectangulaire couverte avec des barres d’une largeur fixées. Les abeilles commenceront la construction de leurs rayons à partir du centre des barres...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Beekeeping: how to make a top bar beehive (Kenyan top bar hive model)
This technology describes step by step how to make a top bar hive (Kenyan model). A top bar hive, or moveable comb hive, is a rectangle box covered with bars of a fixed width. Bees will build their combs from the centre of the top bar, hanging down. To attract...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Management of Newcastle disease
In this video we will learn how to recognise Newcastle disease, and the signs, causes, prevention, control and management of this devastating disease.
Malawi
2020 - Access Agriculture
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